2025 week 28
Jul. 14th, 2025 09:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
larissai've been sleeping terribly, so i'm all discombobulated right now. let's have a quick post.
writing is continuing; i am at 120/180 days for my ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
getyourwordsout goal, with a streak of 102 consecutive days. i've been trying to work on fic, but it keeps not happening... at least i've been able to write goopy oc stuff.
didn't get to play much trails in the sky the 3rd this past week; i finished chapter 1 last night so i have a good idea of the game's cadence, but finding time to progress has been tricky. i do like it so far, but it's definitely a different game from FC and SC so it's taking time to get used to. i'll probably make liveblog posts once i get a little further in.
other than that, not a whole lot happening. it's mogtome season in ff14, which means i'm spending a lot of time in the gold saucer doing GATEs. also a little bit of fishing, which has been nice. i like ocean fishing as a chill activity now and then.
also, i managed to start reading a book today, to try and get out of my reading slump. we'll see how that goes. (every time i look at my reading goal for the year i wince, though. there's no way i'm hitting that many books this year, unfortunately.)
2025 week 27
Jul. 7th, 2025 08:54 pmlarissabad brain day, so i will be brief.
- have managed to work on fic for the first time in months and months. unfortunately what i need to do is revision, which i have always struggled with, but i'll do my best because i really want this fic done and out already. i wrote the first draft in 2023 and it's been languishing since... i gotta just get it done. (it is the endwalker installment of my wolgraha fic series.)
- started trails in the sky the 3rd, but haven't gotten very far in yet.
- no progress on site stuff yet. maybe this week? we'll see.
onwards.
trails in the sky sc liveblog part 4
Jul. 3rd, 2025 10:39 pmlarissai guess it's not really a liveblog since i'm writing this after the fact. whatever.
anyway, i've finished trails sc! took about 55 hours; thank god for the turbo button during some of the more tedious parts. a spoiler-free review is below, followed by indepth talk on chapter 8 and the final chapter.
Lives up to its predecessor in terms of scope of world and story, but gets bogged down by so-so villains in sharp contrast to the excellent character writing of the main party. The majority of the game retreads areas from FC, though the new dungeons are a joy to explore. Worth it for Estelle and her story, but some patience is required to tolerate the parts in between.
( spoiler talk )
on to 3rd! i think i'll start it tonight, but i may not get further for a few days. also, now that i've finished SC, i'm looking forward to the FC remake even more... there were some callbacks in SC to stuff i'd really quite forgotten in FC, and it'd be nice to revisit. the new graphics are truly gorgeous; i saw a gifset today and just about cried seeing kloe in motion. THAT'S MY GIRL.